Mobile system enhances customer experience at 178 Home Depot stores
and saves Bell Nursery $7 million in inventory waste

April 28, 2015 10:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Infinite
Peripherals, Inc. (IPC), a leading provider of enterprise mobility
devices, and Webalo,
a high-productivity mobile app development platform, created an
enterprise mobility system for supply chain and inventory management
that improved profitability and decreased waste by 50 percent at Bell
Nursery. Bell is the primary supplier to 178 Home Depot stores in seven
states and the District of Columbia.

“We are thrilled to have helped Bell Nursery overhaul its systems,
providing the company with real-time holistic intelligence on its entire
supply chain”

“This versatile software has delivered on our mission to dramatically
increase business productivity,” said Joe Perret, vice president at
Bell. “The new solution has helped us save $7 million in inventory waste
while significantly increasing our overall efficiency.”

Replacing a paper process, the new inventory system brings together
iPhones® and IPC’s Linea
Pro® 4 or 5 with Webalo’s Supply Chain and Inventory Management
(SCIM) secure mobile apps. Now Bell Nursery employees – as many as 1,700
in the busy season – manage inventory more quickly and accurately using
the barcode scanner on the Linea Pro to track products via UPC codes,
providing real-time access to accurate inventory data for 400-600 SKUs
across 200 inventory locations.

The automated system enables Bell Nursery to better manage shipments and
placements of the 100 million annuals, perennials and poinsettias that
it provides to Home Depot each year, from grower to check-out. Bell now
has immediate awareness of and flexibility in identifying and moving
perishable plants from where they are not selling to stores where they
are in demand. This is critical for the largest nursery grower in the
mid-Atlantic region that does 80 percent of its business in a 10-week
period.

“We are thrilled to have helped Bell Nursery overhaul its systems,
providing the company with real-time holistic intelligence on its entire
supply chain,” said Webalo CEO Peter Price. “This also benefits Home
Depot customers who now have better access to the exact products they
want at their local stores.”

“The Linea Pro is an easy-to-use, mobile system that provides fast,
accurate scanning and long-lasting performance in demanding warehouse
environments,” said Andrew Graham, president of IPC. “With Webalo’s
platform, this versatile tool has truly been a game changer for Bell
Nursery.”

Secured with AirWatch®
by VMware, the mobile devices are provisioned with more than 36
Webalo applications that are automatically updated through the AirWatch
enterprise mobility management platform, easily equipping employees with
the latest versions of each application.

Infinite Peripherals Background

The first company to mobilize iOS for enterprise, Infinite Peripherals,
Inc. (IPC) is leading the mobility revolution with its enterprise
mobility devices, including the Linea Pro® and Infinea Tab®, which
multiple major retailers in the United States have adopted to enhance
customer engagement, increase customer conversion rates and build
business. IPC’s NFC-enabled products simplify adoption of new
contactless payments, such as Apple Pay™. Anticipating trends and
pre-empting solutions for a constantly evolving business landscape,
IPC’s enterprise mobility products also optimize operations in
healthcare, hospitality, transportation, warehouse and logistics,
entertainment and security. For more information, please visit www.ipcprint.com.
Connect with us at www.facebook.com/infiniteperipheralsinc
and www.twitter.com/infiniteperiph.

About Webalo

Webalo is a high-productivity mobile app development platform that
combines rapid access to back-end systems with the automatic generation
of mobile applications for corporations to deliver more apps, more
quickly, at a dramatically lower cost, while ensuring the highest
degrees of enterprise security and governance. Webalo runs on all major
platforms, including Android, Apple, BlackBerry and Windows smartphones,
tablets, and desktop devices. For more information, visit the company's
website at www.webalo.com.

About Bell Nursery

Bell Nursery is the largest wholesale nursery grower in the
mid-Atlantic, and 11th largest in the nation, based on production space.
Bell and its Network growers produce and ship approximately 100 million
plants each year, including annuals, perennials and poinsettias. Bell
plants are sold exclusively at The Home Depot in seven states and the
District of Columbia. Bell is online at www.bellnursery.com.

Linea Pro and Infinea Tab are registered trademarks of Infinite
Peripherals, Inc. All other trademarks are protected by their respective
owners.